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  Centre for Creative Arts - Poetry Africa
About the poets: The festival is honoured with the presence of one of the world’s most celebrated poets, Japanese cultural giant Shuntaro Tanikawa, also well known as playwright, and scriptwriter for film, television and radio.
Multi-talented Koulsy Lamko (Chad) is a playwright, novelist, accomplished actor as well as a respected performance poet whose work reflects his interest in social issues and concerns for the plight of the downtrodden.
Nigerian Chris Abani fled his homeland in 1991 and his experiences as a political prisoner and the civil war in his homeland are explicitly articulated in his ground-breaking book of poems Kalakuta Republic.
www.cca.ukzn.ac.za /PoetryAfrica2002.html   (1328 words)

  
  Encyclopedia: Poet
Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse.
The Apocalypse Poets are a group of poets, mostly born in the middle or late 20th century (see the term baby boomers) who wrote and lived in the atomic and nuclear age when weapons of annihilation brought about the constant fear of nuclear war and the possible scenario of the end of the...
This is a list of Maltese language poets: Anton Buttigieg (1912-1983) Dun Karm...
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Poet   (1249 words)

  
 Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (from Rossetti Family) --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Italian poet, revolutionary, and scholar, known for his esoteric interpretation of Dante but best known as the father of several talented children, all of whom were born in England, to which he had fled as a political refugee from his native land.
The greatest of Italian poets, Dante Alighieri is generally considered with Shakespeare and Goethe as one of the universal masters in Western literature.
Nigerian poet and novelist Gabriel Okara incorporated African thought, religion, folklore, and imagery into both his verse and prose.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-207509?ct=   (789 words)

  
 List of poets at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
People on this list should ideally have articles of their own, and be in some way noteworthy for their poetry.
List of English-language first and second generation modernist writers
Frances E. Harper, poet, novelist, lecturer and activist in turn of the century temperance and racial uplift movements.
wiki.tatet.com /List_of_poets.html   (677 words)

  
 African Music on the Internet
Has lists by language and country of its Sound of Africa recordings.
Unmoderated list for "the study and appreciation of jembe traditions in Africa and abroad.
He is considered the Father of Modern Nigerian Art Music, according to his biographer, Olabode Omojola." The May 2005 Fela Sowande Centennial Symposia and Festivals was in Lagos, Nigeria.
www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/music.html   (6568 words)

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